“You are now one step closer to joining us against the tyranny of closed networks. It is time to stand up against shoddy console ports and sub-par console graphics. It is time to return to the original gaming platform.”
Those are the words from Razer when completing an online sign-up to be notified of a mysterious big announcement to come on 26 August 2011. Razer is well known among PC gamers for their range of various gaming peripherals and accessories.
Issuing an opening declaration of an upcoming platform civil-war and reunification, Razer took out a full page advertisement in the global edition of the Wall Street Journal. Through an open letter, they address Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony’s Playstation and Nintendo’s Wii consoles. The letter is transcribed below.
To our friends Xbox, PlayStation and Wii,
We have all heard the rhetoric about the demise of PC Gaming – the stories that console gaming will take over all gaming and that PC gamers will be left with shoddy ports of console titles.
The rumours of our untimely demise have been greatly exaggerated. We are more than 300 million PC gamers worldwide and this legion is growing every day. Today there are more PC gamers than all console gamers combined and we have been silent in the face of the closed gaming systems that have been propagated.
We, the PC Gamers, have been here since the beginning and have seen the industry grow to surpass movies and music, and we look forward to an open world where console and PC gamers will stand side by side as gamers in arms.
We are here today to tell you, that on the 26th of August, we will seek to end the silence and bring a new age of openness and innovation to all gaming. Together we shall remind you – that PC Gaming is NOT dead.
GLHF,
Razer.
For the PC Gamers of the world.
Well isn’t that intriguing? I imagine some sort of cross platform gaming peripherals; perhaps even a decent mouse and keyboard style control pad for the console shooters out there?
Then again, there is all that stuff about ending the tyranny of closed networks and mention of legions – could Razer have been infiltrated by Anonymous?
I’m sure you will have your say in the comments below…
To get in on the act, head on over the PC Gaming is not dead website, where one will find a electronic voice going into further detail about this initiative.
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